Rebecca Evans


Rebecca Evans grew up near Buffalo, New York in a family chock full of musicians, artists, and crazy people with a love for life. She started drawing as soon as she could hold a crayon and just never stopped. Rebecca knew from a very young age that she wanted to be an artist when she finally grew up. To that end she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Art from Messiah College with a concentration in Drawing and Illustration, and completed coursework from the Tyler School of Art. She worked for nine years as an artist and designer before returning to my first love: children’s book illustration. Her experience includes authoring and/or illustrating more than twenty picture books and nine middle-grade readers, speaking at schools and teaching illustration at the Local Performing and Visual Arts magnet school and Chesapeake Center for the Creative Arts. She served as Co-Regional Advisor on Illustrator Coordinator for the SCBWI Maryland/Delaware/West Virginia region for many years. In addition, she mentored with EB Lewis.

Rebecca lives in Maryland and enjoys spending time with her husband and four children, while working as an author/illustrator from her home studio during every spare moment. 

Rebecca is represented by Essie White. 

Publications

  • When I Go To Church by Elrena Evans and illustrated by Rebecca Evans, IVP Kids, 2023

    • 2023 Illumination Award Gold Medal

  • A New Day for Umwell the Gray by Nathaniel Jenks, illustrated by Rebecca Evans, Tilbury House Publishers, 2023 

  • All Will Be Well, illustrated by Rebecca Evans, IVP Kids, 2022

  • Baby’s Opposites by Nancy Raines Day and illustrated by Rebecca Evans, Charlesbridge, 2021

  • Jake and Ava: A Boy and A Fish by Jonathan Balcombe, illustrated by Rebecca Evans, Gryphon Press 2021

  • Alone Like Me, Anne Schwartz Books, 2022

  • If You Ever Meet a Skeleton, illustrated by Katrin Dreiling, Page Street Kids, 2021

  • If Animals Built Your House by Bill Wise. illustrated by Rebecca Evans, Dawn Publications, 2020

  • Plants Fight Back by Lisa Amstutz. Dawn Publications, 2020

  • Is 2 a Lot: An Adventure With Numbers by Annie Watson. Tilbury House Publishers, 2019

    • 2020 Mathical Book Honor Book

  • If You Played Hide-and-Seek With a Chameleon by Bill Wise. Dawn Publications, 2019

    • IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award gold winner in the Interior Design: Children's/Young Adult category

    • 2020 Children’s Choices reading list